Alexei Petrovich Bogoliubov

The panel is sound. The varnish has discoloured and there is a light layer of surface dirt. There are some minor scratches to the paint surface and fine craquelure is visible throughout the composition. There are frame abrasions along all four edges with corresponding minor paint loss. Examination under UV light reveals no apparent signs of restoration. Held in a gold coloured wooden frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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Auvers-sur-Oise is a picturesque town to the North West of Paris celebrated as an artist’s colony, which was first discovered by Charles Daubigny and the painters of the Barbizon school, whom Bogoliubov admired so much. Bogoliubov, who lived primarily in France after 1873, is known to have spent September and October of 1881 at Auvers where he also painted Auvers near Paris and Auvers, Sandy Slope, both on panels of identical dimensions as the present lot and now in the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery and the Radishchev State Art Museum respectively.